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    <description><![CDATA[Active since 1994, Julie's Haircut is a six piece collective from northern Italy. Their debut album "Fever in the funk house" (Gammapop, 1999), a strange mixture of garage rock, noisy psychedelia and pop melodies was hailed at by the Italian critics as one of the best debuts in Italian indie rock. The follow-up "Stars never looked so bright" (Gammapop, 2001) mixed these elements with a more soulful approach, mirroring the love for 60's black music nurtured by the band. In 2003, after switching to Homesleep Records Julie's Haircut released their third album "Adult situations", the first to be internationally distributed. Here, melody and odd psychedelia mingle in a more personal way, providing their best work to date. By 2005 the music of Julie's Haircut has moved forward towards more experimental grounds, focusing on improv and sound research, without losing touch with the groove that characterized their music since day one. The result is their latest album "After dark, my sweet" (Homesleep, 2006), featuring former Spacemen 3 Sonic Boom, acclaimed as one of the best alternative Italian albums of the year. In 2006 they also functioned as "sound carriers" for an Italian performance of former Can singer Damo Suzuki, thus entering the Damo Suzuki Network and consolidating a warm relationship with the japanese/german artist.]]></description>
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      <title>New Studio Album available!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Our Secret Ceremony is the fifth album by Julie's Haircut. It features 15 tracks for 90 minutes worth of music. Released on the label A Silent Place and available as a double cd set, limited edition double lp and digital download, the new record by Julie's Haircut is a step further in the evolution of the band's sound, which has become always more open to the «collective» dimension, given the number of musicians that took part in the sessions and the ever-changing line-up of players during the recordings. 
Musically, the record lives on the osmosis of different styles and approaches, from pop to electronica, from psychedelia to experimentation, still never lacking in coherence and unity. 
The first disc has a more classically orientated song structure, accompanied by the second part which has a looser feel, though an accurate distinction between musical forms is really impossibile and out of place: even those tracks with a more conventional structure suggest immersions into the deepness of sound, and the long instrumental fugues always remain anchored to a solid harmonic and rhythmical structure. 
In a way, it's as if there are, throughout the entire album and in every single track, the two basic aspects of the creative process and, ultimately, of the human existence, living side by side: light and shadow, conscienceness and unconscienceness, reality and dream. 
"In every chaos there's a cosmos, in every mess a secret order" (Carl Gustav Jung)

Recorded june 2007 - june 2008 at Bunker Studio (Rubiera) and Alpha Dept (Bologna).
Engineered by Andrea Rovacchi and Francesco Donadello. Assistance at Bunker by Andrea Daviddi.
Additional production by Francesco Donadello.
Mixed by Andrea Rovacchi except "Mean Affair", "Breakfast With The Lobster" and "The Shadow, Our Home" mixed by Francesco Donadello.
Mastered by Davide Barbi at The Right Bell (Modena).

Cover art by Luca Lumaca from a concept brainstormed by Nicola Caleffi, Luca Giovanardi, Laura Storchi, Andrea Scarfone and Luca Lumaca.
Lettering by Stefano Landini.]]></description>
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      <title>The Devil In Kate Moss</title>
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      <title>The Dead Will Walk The Earth</title>
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      <title>Black T-Shirt</title>
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      <title>Safe As</title>
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      <title>The Power Of Psychic Revenge</title>
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      <title>Private Hell</title>
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      <title>Pass The Ashtray</title>
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      <title>Love Session</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 08:58:35 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Satan Eats Seitan (Nuccini! Remix)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:39:22 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Liv Ullman</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Directed by Luca G</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:41:59 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Satan Eats Seitan </title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:05:57 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Julie's Haircut 2008 - photo by Ilaria Magliocchetti</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:47:41 -0700</pubDate>
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